Description

Jamie Arbuckle served for 36 years in the Canadian Army. As a peacekeeper, he has served three tours with the United Nations Forces in Cyprus (UNFICYP), and with the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia. He also served four tours with Canada’s NATO forces in Germany.

Jamie was a faculty member of the Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Nova Scotia, a member of the Capacity Building and Training Section of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE), and has delivered seminars on Conflict Management for the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna and for missions in Croatia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Albania, as well as at the Austrian Peace Support Command, the German Foreign Ministry Training Centre in Bonn and at York University in the UK.

Jamie was the English copy editor for the Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations and has written several articles on military issues for professional publications. Jamie’s the author of two books: The Level Killing Fields of Yugoslavia: An Observer Returns, and Military Forces in Twenty-first Century Peace Operations: No Job for a Soldier?, which details the military role in humanitarian operations.

Topics discussed include:

• The first modern peacekeeping mission in the Suez crisis.
• The five layers of consent required for a successful peacekeeping mission.
• The trade-off between protecting human rights and sovereignty.
• How the UN induced consent in eastern Solvenia.
• The likelihood of launching a non-consensual peace operation.
• The Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
• Strategies to create host-government consent for peace operations.

And much more.